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1) The bone bed
Author
Language
English
Description
Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta investigates...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of a serial killer she's tracked before, but upon further investigation, she discovers puzzling pox-like eruptions...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when a video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she comes to grips with frightening secrets about her niece. That first clip and others sent soon after raise dangerous implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta...
5) Red mist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
As she investigates the murder of her former deputy chief, Kay Scarpetta discovers links to a series of otherwise unrelated killings, and soon finds herself unraveling a global terror conspiracy.
7) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
From America's #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for CNN--becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
9) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Four young women have been found murdered-tortured and strangled in their own beds-all victims of the same brilliant monster. Using a skilled hand and the latest technology in forensic medicine, Kay Scarpetta begins the process of gathering the microscopic clues the latest battered body has to give.
10) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
11) Codigo negro
Author
Publisher
Editorial Atlantida
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
Español
12) Trace
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Trace is the heart-stopping new Dr. Kay Scarpetta thriller from America's #1 best-selling crime writer. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that...
13) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta is taken an ocean's length away from home. A cargo ship arriving from Belgium at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway.
14) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard. As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative report Ted eddings is found. Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim,...
15) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The Twelfth Dr Kay Scarpetta Novel. Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.
Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome...
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a young graduate student who is subsequently linked to bizarre homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI agent husband is tracking down a serial killer.
18) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
19) Body of evidence
Author
Language
English
Description
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a reclusive author and discovers that forensic pathology is more than laboratory work when she becomes involved in a dangerous criminal investigation.
20) Book of the dead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it’s time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation...